• ERICSSON AND ORGA TEAM
    Ericsson Radio Systems and ORGA Kartensysteme GmbH have signed an agreement under which Ericsson will integrate ORGA's "hot billing" prepaid system for GSM into Ericsson's pre-paid service offerings. The prepaid system uses the mobile network's existing processing subsystem ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in News, Billing
  • OMNITRONIX INTRODUCES SNMP-LINK
    Hardware manufacturer Omnitronix is now offering a new hardware tool for network administrators-SNMP-Link Network Management Proxy Agent, designed to help implement and extend the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The SNMP-Link functions essentially as a protocol ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • CYBERCASH, ICVERIFY PLAN TO MERGE
    CyberCash, Inc. and ICVERIFY Inc. have reached an agreement to merge the two companies. The shareholders of ICVERIFY will receive $16 million in cash and 2.3 million shares of CyberCash common stock. CyberCash's Internet offerings will be integrated with ICVERIFY's physical ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • Billing World Financial Watch Carrier Needs Flood Billing Industry
    Billing Index Outperforms Several Major Indexes Source: Factset Carriers worldwide increasingly are turning to third party billing vendors to meet their complex billing system needs-and investors are noticing this skyrocketing demand. "It would take a worldwide recession to ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • Moving Upstream in the Revenue Assurance Pipeline
    One day, a communications technician went into town to grab a burger instead of eating his usual brown bag fare. On his way back to the central office (CO), he spotted a line of people extending around the corner. With mounting curiosity, he followed the queue. He found, to ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in Articles
  • Managing System Diversity to Support the Convergent Business
    The claim of many telecommunications service providers that "Of course we have convergence, we provide a single bill, don't we?" is only slightly less convincing than that old standby of the chronically unromantic, "Of course I love you, I married you, didn't I?" The spouse ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • Billing for IP: More Demands, Not Much Mystery
    Billing for Internet Protocol (IP) based services won't be as mysterious as one might think. While there are certain unique demands that IP will bring to the table, most of the basic concepts are no different than in the circuit switched world. Keep in mind that the future ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • PTT TELECOM B.V. TO DEPLOY SS7 SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
    Inet announced the award of a contract from PTT Telecom B.V. of the Netherlands for the purchase of Inet's GeoProbe Operations and Business Support System. The GeoProbe system is intended to provide monitoring for thousands of PTT's SS7/C7 links. The system will be used to ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • CAP GEMINI AND MICROSOFT ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT
    Cap Gemini, a business consulting and systems integration company, has signed an agreement with Microsoft to jointly address opportunities in the Internet market. Cap Gemini's global telecommunications unit will create a design center in Paris focused on applications of ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • SAP INTRODUCES ACCOUNTING AND LOGISTICS COMPONENTS
    SAP AG's IS-T/FI-CA (financial accounting-contract accounting) and IS-T/ML (network element logistics) are based on SAP R/3 Release 4.0. IS-T/FI-CA is designed to allow companies to streamline open item and revenue management processes through more efficient parallel ...More
    June 1, 1998
    Posted in News